What would a Republican-led palace coup be without the involvement of self-admitted dirty trickster Roger J. Stone Jr.?

According to The New York Times, Stone, who learned to play political hardball on the 1972 Richard Nixon election campaign, at least knew in advance about the Republican’s retaking of the New York Senate last week.

In addition, a judge is to rule today whether the coup was legitimate in the first place.

[ . . . ]

Stone was an adviser to Golisano on his unsuccessful 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Golisano’s third attempt to win that office.

Stone’s connection to the Senate upheaval may come through billionaire B. Thomas Golisano, the driving force behind the takeover.

[ etc. ]

Stone has also had a connection to the Senate, as he once served as an adviser to Republican Joseph L. Bruno, then the senate majority leader.

Stone resigned from that position in 2007 after he was accused of leaving a threatening voice message at the office of Spitzer’s father. Stone denied the accusations.

Bruno resigned from the Senate last year. This January, a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of concealing work he did for labor unions and private companies that did business with the state.

The french president Nicolas Sarkozy called on Monday 15 June, Geneva strengthening the role of the International Labor Organization with respect to major financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and the Organization World Trade Organization (WTO). “It is necessary that the ILO can have something to say to the WTO, IMF and World Bank,” said Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking during a mini – Jobs Summit organized by the ILO. Le chef de l’Etat a défendu devant les 183 membres de l’organisation une “révolution” qui permettrait de rendre obligatoires les normes votées par l’OIT. “Une norme qui n’est pas obligatoire n’est pas une norme, c’est comme une feuille qui s’envole dans le vent” , at-il insisté sous une nuée d’applaudissements. The head of state has defended before the 183 members of the organization a “revolution” that would make mandatory the standards adopted by the ILO. “A standard which is not required is not a standard, c It is like a leaf that flies in the wind, “he insisted in a cloud of applause.

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Airflo APM2O Lionceau airplane is moved to the static exhibition area one day before the opening of the 48th Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport near Paris June 14, 2009. The Paris Air Show opens Monday under a morose, uneasy cloud.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

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A group of Mexicans are unfurling a pair of pants which is 60.1 meters long on Sunday in an effort to break the Guinness World Record for longest pants. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev questioned the dollar’s future earlier this month, saying it isn’t “in a spectacular position, let’s be frank, and its prospects cause various questions.” Alexei Ulyukayev, first deputy chairman of the bank, said June 10 that some reserves may be moved into bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund.

Still, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in an interview two days ago that the dollar is in “good shape,” and that “it’s too early to speak of an alternative” to the U.S. currency.

On a visit to Beijing on June 2, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said there will be enough demand for record sales of U.S. debt. In March, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on the U.S. “to guarantee the safety of China’s assets.” China’s central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, has proposed the eventual creation of a new, supranational currency.

[ . . . ]

The Congressional Budget Office projects the federal budget shortfall will reach a record $1.85 trillion this year, with the gap exceeding $600 billion through the year 2019.

June 15 (Bloomberg) — International purchases of American financial assets grew more slowly in April as China, Japan and Russia pared demand for Treasuries, underscoring the danger of U.S. reliance on foreigners to finance its fiscal deficit.

I do understand that your news group is a profit-driven and profit rich organization. What I do not understand is this:

Since many groups of people are doing no further examination of things than the quick feeding of information from you, why on the shows you produce are we seeing “experts” who are choosing to lie? They must know the truth of the situation because of their knowledge base and background. What are they doing? – propaganda? – intentional “framing” of the situation in terms they believe will create “confidence” where it is no longer merited? – do they believe lies? What is it that would cause otherwise knowledgeable individuals to pretend something is so that is not?

I would like to see both sides of the issue, too. That seems to be the rationale for giving airtime to contributors that as experts, especially on economics and business projections, are essentially disseminating false interpretations of the facts, knowingly. But the job of news is to accurately portray the facts and what these facts indicate truthfully. We are all capable of forming our own opinions thereafter.

The Great Depression

In October 1929 the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. Even after the stock market collapse, however, politicians and industry leaders continued to issue optimistic predictions for the nation’s economy. But the Depression deepened, confidence evaporated and many lost their life savings. By 1933 the value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was less than a fifth of what it had been at its peak in 1929. Business houses closed their doors, factories shut down and banks failed. Farm income fell some 50 percent. By 1932 approximately one out of every four Americans was unemployed.

The core of the problem was the immense disparity between the country’s productive capacity and the ability of people to consume. Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity of U.S. farmers and wage earners. The savings of the wealthy and middle class, increasing far beyond the possibilities of sound investment, had been drawn into frantic speculation in stocks or real estate. The stock market collapse, therefore, had been merely the first of several detonations in which a flimsy structure of speculation had been leveled to the ground.

The presidential campaign of 1932 was chiefly a debate over the causes and possible remedies of the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover, unlucky in entering The White House only eight months before the stock market crash, had struggled tirelessly, but ineffectively, to set the wheels of industry in motion again. His Democratic opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt, already popular as the governor of New York during the developing crisis, argued that the Depression stemmed from the U.S. economy’s underlying flaws, which had been aggravated by Republican policies during the 1920s. President Hoover replied that the economy was fundamentally sound, but had been shaken by the repercussions of a worldwide depression — whose causes could be traced back to the war. Behind this argument lay a clear implication: Hoover had to depend largely on natural processes of recovery, while Roosevelt was prepared to use the federal government’s authority for bold experimental remedies.

The election resulted in a smashing victory for Roosevelt, who won 22,800,000 votes to Hoover’s 15,700,000. The United States was about to enter a new era of economic and political change.

The idea that the Great Depression in the United States would have righted itself without any intervention is only a theory and is not supported in the economies around the World historically that have endured depressed economies for any extended length of time. It doesn’t matter what Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals think about that. The facts are still the same and so are the outcomes. Theory and opinion are not facts.

Nor can opinion and theory alter the facts which will become obvious sooner or later. No matter how the facts are, no matter what they are, no matter why they are –> these will remain constant, regardless of our opinions and theories about them.

There are an obvious group of questions that indicate this truth – )( in economics)(.

1. What happens when everyone is selling and very few or no one is buying?

2. How many people stop purchasing when their (one) job disappears and they can’t get another job within a month or two? Is it the members of their immediate household that stop purchasing or also their church, scouts, civic clubs, local government services, schools, and every business they had been using locally?

3. If 66% of those in the US who want to work are working (as described by a news channel a couple days ago), what has happened to the other 34% of those who want to work? Are they homeless now? How many individuals and families is that?

4. When demand goes down, as with many grocery items, stores and commodities such as gasoline, but prices go up – is it obvious these companies are trying to maintain the same profit margins? If an analysis comes from any business or economics book’s information, what happens at some point by doing this? Doesn’t it eventually undermine the sales and stability of company assets, bankrupt the company and further destabilize other things around them?

5. During the Great Depression, the rosy optimism of Republicans failed to meet the measure required to restore faith nor solved the problem. Why would it appear to them as the proper choice to make today, to use after that dismal failure of the same tactic?

6. What happens when over 60% of the physical properties that could be used as a potential residence cannot be afforded by the majority of the population requiring it?

7. What does it mean in the greater scheme of capitalism when all competition for a market position is thwarted and is not accessible – such as the case with any competition for other fuel sources to power homes, cars, airplanes, trucks, ships, farm equipment, boats, trains, etc.?

We have alternatives researched ad nauseum already and prepared to go into the market – why are they denied opportunities to be there available to us? Oil and gas, natural gas, heating oil and electricity have been subsidized for many years, why do we stay our hand now, declining support for those who would compete with them? Our subsidized research to these existing commodities, utilities and oil companies for their geological surveys, for equipment, business incentives, tax breaks and every other avenue of subsidy and support has given an unfair advantage that we funded and yet we have not extended those aids to other forms of energy, power and fuels that would compete with them. Now what?

I’ve met some people over the years that truly live in poverty. And, it seemed to have less to do with how much money they had and more to do with something else.

In every case, these people had more money consistently available to them than I did. Yet, they were impoverished in their mentality about it, in their choices and in their lifestyles.

Some of it steered choices and priorities such that nothing else was possible in these people’s lives. The same $5 can buy one really big lush towel on sale or one meal one time at McDonald’s. Guess which one they would choose while saying they could only afford old, frayed, “couldn’t get the water off the floor with it” towels to use every day.

In my house, although it took six months to do it, each of have two good towels. For awhile, they were color choices based on which of us they belonged to. And, that works. If one was dirty, the other one was used. If found stuffed under the bed, it was easy to tell who was responsible to correct it. I guess we missed going to McDonald’s a few times but it feels so right to come out of a bath and put a nice new towel next to the skin that a sense of abundance is in it.

Without much money, it is very easy to fall into despair about it. Anything that can engage the senses daily to express abundance is helpful to alleviate impoverished futility thinking. This is desirable because many, many messages of worth in our world today imply the idea that value of a life and the worth of a person is based on how much money they have or can generate.

I have noticed that time, actions, activity, choices and engagement in one’s own life has the greater value and determines what happens with the life that is, by nature, valuable whether recognized or not.

I used to hear the basic excuse for insanity of purpose and drive to be the old adage about the tree falling in the forest without anyone to hear it. Did it make a sound or not? That is some real poverty thinking that created this adage and its implied meanings. I’m sure the plants below it that were crushed heard it coming and any other creatures capable of moving out of the way.

Mankind has not defined sound nor sound waves, merely studied what was already here and interpreted it. The world we live in is one of abundance. Why would anyone sit with their child in thirst and curse the rain, not even collecting it to drink when capable of doing so?

What is that, if not poverty at a very basic level of thought, interpretation and reasoning? We are all creators, by design. The world we live in and the moments of time we have are infinity today.

“Today, has been a very busy day – with hobbies and learning stuff. I thought it might be interesting to post the work (part of it) done since around 7 a.m. today. The previous two posts show the photos of these lessons from College Chemistry being woven into a dynamic new solution set to help our dams around the world to be repaired once they are damaged or compromised in any way.

Hopefully, somehow, some way – I can find a path to the Changhe group to use these ideas to add to their own and others to help China fix the dams within the region that now jeopardize the people already suffering from the earthquake damage. I wish there was an easy way to wrong the ideas of our time with less force, but I’ve long ago given up that effort. It is a waste of time. And, as much as I know that on Memorial Day Weekend, whether disabled or not, I’m supposed to be picnicking somewhere with family or friends – not working on this, I’m glad to be donning the mantle of working on something worthwhile.

Because I live in the United States and serve as a citizen of our country, there is no way I could email the plans and ideas which were the product of today into the Chinese government community without upsetting our operations’ officers here. Consequently, after much thought about it today, I realized the public in our country and around the world have as much right to access this as anyone. I wrote it, I created it, and yes, sometimes my best workshop is in my bathroom because I can smoke cigarettes in there and hoist the smell out the ventilator fan – it is also a bit more private than the rest of my apartment / condo.

Regardless, I work everywhere in the place where I live – no matter where it is. This is just one of many days that I’ve worked on things “cause I can.” Right now, I’m playing Christmas music by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby from a Christmas gift from Mom and Daddy last Christmas that I’ve just now gotten a chance to even play. This seemed like a good day for it – but don’t tell my neighbors that I am aware it isn’t Christmas right now. They wouldn’t necessarily consider it as noteworthy as the fact that they are putting up with hearing those songs one more time coming from my apartment.

The little wire gizmo in the picture is a helix spiral for the atomic complication that I’m working on for the remaining portion of the package that will add information and maybe a little help to the efforts to construct a working system and polyu- compound for fixing these dams and others. We have quite a few that have needed some exceptional repair products for use in extreme conditions, also. There are always some paths to get them to NCGS or somebody.

Anyway, I have encouraged my youngest daughters and my first grand-daughter to have a picnic in their living room today – while they still have a living room around them, and celebrate the holiday with a pic-a-nicka basket on the floor, some sandwhiches and a good old quilt. Hopefully, they will remember how to build a tent fort and show grand-daughter-J what that is like. Sometimes, it takes more patience than I have to work with those girls, but there you go.

Gotta love em. – – – – – and, the first idiot that tells any of them – (my children) – what I’m working on – has had it.

Once upon a time, there were some quiet friends who needed to communicate with one another along some very private avenues without convergence or interruption. They took among them a list of songs that they all knew and could easily recall from memory in both melody and lyrics. With these songs lists, they could openly and freely communicate without the discernment of outsiders even in the intimate company of others.

These were complex and dangerous times when the friends decided amongst themselves and with their “commanders” to do this. It was quite a game to analyze the song content by registration keys for a message or messages to be read. The messages didn’t exist in the songs. The songs were used like passages in a book to encode and decode pertinent data, if found, the information would be meaningless to those who had received no access to the keys. At best, they would simply be guessing at the meaning.

Then, something happened to the key sets in use up until that time. With a change of administrative personnel critical to the unit’s survival, a choice was made quite incidental to any of the operating policies of those involved. This administrative person made an administrative change altering the original coding key sets that were based upon specific song titles within those sets.

This clerk did not change the order of the songs within the key. He did change and quasi-permanently altered the actual song titles to be used within the key. This administrative choice was made from the original song titles in the code keys to more up-to-date songs that he could readily fit into the codex (songs lists key sets.)

He then instructed the new song sets to be used on all incoming messages. These were song titles recognized by him and therefore, he believed they would be easier for everyone to use. He only told a few other administrative people in passing about these altered “code key” and “playbook” entries so that it appears to have been fairly insignificant and of little consequence to him, until now.

In this story, there has been no happy ending although it is being sorted out now and the field personnel, the quiet friends and the command group generals have the harms done on their own conscience to bear. Realizing the error and now with the corrected songs on the code keys, old messages are being released to the proper and appropriate channels of the group and to those interested parties currently worthy of note. The messages and data contained therein are a reminder of important lessons learned at prices and costs too high to dismiss. Of lives lost, damages done, days and wars and untold violence, in every way direct and infinite, a product and parcel of one person’s ego unhindered by the common sense of thinking skills applied to real-life, real world decisions.

I can say that in this once upon a time land, today does reside with real events, real people, real places and very tangible, real lives lost “because” . . . just, because of insignificance and no consequence. To see, to hear, to speak, to know, to be a thinking, sorting, and reasoning being carries with the knowledge and freedom a totality incongruous to the actions of this administrative clerk in my story.

Not even a shoelace is insignificant if it is the cause of a lost foot in a bicycle race or the loss of a leg on a motorcycle. The decision of what amounts to much or not cannot be left to those who do not know nor to those who cannot possibly understand what difference it makes in real lives, real situations, real events and in the scope of complex and timely operations, / projects, and real life risks.

Written by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 05-22-08

Stories of War –

Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips
Cricket House Studios, 2008

Kim, (my sister)
Jon
John
Debbie
Lisa
& me ( & sometimes, the kid from around the corner that helped us build a fort)

played war when I was in first grade (6 years old) at Smyrna, Georgia house on Mohawk Place.
(The time period when this experience took place was 1964 – 1965 and maybe 1966 also, US)

We came up with the codes using songs so that we could do recon without the other team knowing what we were saying – especially when one of us had found a huge stockpile of pinecones or dried dirt-clods to use.

Our teams were a changing square-off between us – of 3 against 3, so each engagement had to be a new command decision meeting of codes, strategies and sharing new and previous resourced information (especially that gained from working on the other team last time.)

This was like, which side of the house worked best for cover and escape, new songs to use for today’s code, what passwords and secret password checks would allow us to know each other coming around the corner of the house. (And, whether we had shifted alliances, been captured & forced to play for the other team, or told to quit throwing dirt clods at each other by any of our parents.) It was fun.

I learned rather quickly that my neighborhood friends and my sister who was slightly younger than me, couldn’t use the fun number games and codes I liked to play with (as a hobby) whenever I could. The best we could do was to work with some songs that we all knew and could agree upon.

Kim and I sang in the car with Mom on long trips, so we knew a lot of songs and all the words for them along with the melodies. Our friends had a little more trouble with that, but we all knew some of the same ones from Church, Sunday School and nursery rhyme songs. We used Hickory-Dickory Dock a lot until I was sick of that song from using it so much and sighed everytime it was offered as the best choice after awhile.

It got to where we could just about guess the three songs (sometimes, 2) the other team was using. I always seemed to get charged with doing that (figuring out what songs the other team was using), regardless of who got command on our team for that particular engagement. Some of our “engagements” lasted for days till one team or the other won the flag, or completed the operations we agreed on for winning.

Some of the operations were created by us at the moment (for winning / goals to achieve) with fairly elaborate stories. The boys always seemed to want “the prize” to be some uniquely awesome weapon, weapons system, treasure or high-tech secret. The girls mostly voted on military advantage – take the hill kind of stuff; find the secret, the treasure, the secret plans; find and capture all the members of the other team; rescue the victims of some evil, obscene plot; or restore something to its rightful owner.

It’s a wonder we didn’t get hurt because we sure didn’t play nice. We kept the rules of no hits with (a. pinecones, b. dried dirt clods, c. any other projectiles we created or used) above the shoulders / no targeting faces, necks, heads or hands. Beyond that, it was open season. We didn’t use sticks except as launch mechanisms & as the supports stuck in the ground for launch mechanisms.

But, what we launched – could and would definitely sting if we got hit, so we learned defensive and protective strategies real quick. It wasn’t like in cartoons where hiding behind a tree would get it, unless we didn’t stay there for long. Partly because the “enemy” kept moving, was always in motion and if you could see two, there was somewhere a third one coming up behind you to nail you with a dirt clod.

We didn’t have trees we could climb much in our yard so that didn’t provide a tactical advantage, but we had a cut-away hill beside the driveway on one side of the yard and a big wooded backyard. There were two massive oak trees in the front yard and a drainage ditch with a very slight hill between our yard and the neighbor’s on the opposite side of the house.

This little ditch was a simple foot wide trough with about an 18 inch height of graded incline into our front yard. On its backside, it was open to Lisa’s yard beside their house and ran the full length between the two properties from the street, along the side of the house and into the back yard. It provided the best vantage point and movement along the length of it and quick escape to the protection of the side of our house and the backyard for egress or retreat, if necessary.

We did a lot of regrouping, recon and sharing of “enemy” troop movements using every creative application of resources, knowledge and talents we could muster. I used all my favorite chess strategies in it although mostly to support our team, confound the “enemy” team and to plan and execute wins.

Each time we played “war” like this, we voted / decided on leadership roles and who served as commander / general / team leader and worked out who served as team “assistant, adjutant general, colonel or captain” for recon / tactical and the same titles for weapons management / coordination. It meant that everyone got to give orders to the others on some things and were basically responsible for those things / areas of need (primarily plus help with everything else – every team member was responsible for attacking the “enemy”).

I hated getting the job of finding and stockpiling our weapons of dirt clods and pinecones, although it did allow me to do more of the “spy” stuff in this job. Its amazing what can be heard while collecting weapons among the trees in the backyard while the other team thinks they have some privacy for their planning sessions. Weapons management meant I had to scream across the yard for my colleagues to throw over that pile of pinecones they were standing right next to and time it after they had finished throwing the one in their hand at some “enemy” team member. (And, then duck the incoming weapons stockpile being thrown to me across the yard.) I didn’t end up with that job too often but I did create a couple good little launchers out of some sticks and pea green pine straw laced with ribbon and two rubber bands from my hair on more than an occasion or two.

The songs key list for coding messages and information (codex) came out of this and from the multitude of ciphering / codes and numbers games books I worked with from around the age of – I don’t know but I was already familiar with them at the age of 4 as a fun way to pass the time while waiting, riding or while supposed to be “napping” in the afternoon.

(The time period when this experience took place was 1964 – 1965 and maybe 1966 also, US)

1. What is available?
Believe it or not, I start with a broad scan of what is available before focusing on what is needed for a project or group of projects. When I’m searching across these broad areas, it includes local resources across the community and nearby cities as well as online and specialty resources pools. This also includes any and every possibility I can generate for places to look.
For instance, there are always huge bins of salvageable resources in “tear-offs,” remodeling and construction industry discards. These represent large pools of tangible resources that can be used for a multitude of project requirements. There are also independent contractors who are involved in construction projects who recycle and send into the community some of the things they happen upon during their work that can be approached to acquire certain things from electric motors to wiring, wiring harnesses and other industrial salvage. This is only one example, but there are many throughout our communities and in nearby city centers.

2. What is needed?
After taking a look at where large pools of certain resources are abundant and reviewing my goals for the project, I look at what is needed. Sometimes, the look at abundant current pools of resources does influence changes in the project, but most of the time, it does not. The next thing to do is to either get a list on paper or get a list, general or specific, in my mind. It depends on what it is – if there are over twenty items, more or less, I generally keep the list in my mind rather than on paper because that works better for me. The main idea is to be congruent, coherent and concurrent in acquisition processing. There is no sense missing the opportunity to get three things from the same place because a list is being processed one item at a time.
I always determine at this point, how important is it? This is a critical judgement at this point in the process because if I don’t know how far I’m willing to go to complete the project, I won’t have a basis of judgement or justification for climbing over the hurdles that will be part and parcel of resourcing the project.

3. What condition of assets is required? (Does it matter if they are brand new or not?)
Sometimes, a brand new item within a project group is the only thing that will work for the integrity of the finished product. If that is the case, I want to determine that as early in the process as I can. Then, resourcing that item may be limited to cash in trade or in kind trade or some other limiting method. Otherwise, how new does it need to be? Most things do not have to be brand new and occasionally, reconditioning may be required.

4. How much (in what quantity) is required?

5. Is the entire quantity required at once or at the start? (Or can it be done in stages?)

6. Besides stores and other retail outlets, where are these resources located?

7. In what quantities are the resources available at the places listed?

8. What barter, trade or cash is required to get these assets?

9. How quickly can they be acquired, delivered, rounded up?

10. Now, decisions have to be made –

A.) Yes, go ahead –
B.) No, not worth it –
C.) Probably, but need more info –
D.) Likely, but need better resource choices – or access choices –
E.) Maybe later, set on a shelf for another time and relook later.

This is an economics test that I just made up this morning – which is very basic. However, none of the answers have anything to do with confidence in any form as a term of valuation. If your answers are in any perspective based on the idea of “confidence, credibility, and / or housing” – thet need to be changed to something else for this test’s answers.

If you know anyone in the government regulating businesses, banks, financial institutions, markets, market analysis or financial investments and financial consultants, – send this test to them by email and ask them to try it out and send you the answers. It should be interesting. This would also apply to any and all that are leading businesses, marketplace activities, stock market activities, financiers and financial advisors, et al.

The test answers will be available on another site than this and the address for them (probably at MySpace or YouTube) will be published later today, 04-27-08.

BASIC SKILLS TEST FOR ECONOMICS – I – 2008 – USA1 –

Written in entirety by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips on 04-27-08

Note – (no reference materials were used for this test – but you are welcome to use any that you need.)

1. What are the seven factors that impact (ECOM) economics?

a.)

b.)

c.)

d.)

e.)

f.)

g.)

2. What are the three factors that determine the value of any and all currencies? (currency)

a.)

b.)

c.)

3. What is an ( *example ) exceptional, extreme market factor that influences, impacts, and often undermines currency value / valuation of assets?

1.)

4. What is the primary factor that influences the market value of all other things?

1.)

*** This test is simple and basic, but for those who believe and have been taught that “confidence” determines those values of market place assets and dynamics – it will be hard to shift away from that thinking. Look for the real, tangible values that profitable and true economics / economies utilize for their foundations and in their thinking about those dynamic forces.

The United States Of America Is A Nation Of Individuals And Of People – Not of Laws –

2008 Cricket Diane C Phillips

Whenever I hear someone say, “We are a nation of laws,” I know that somewhere, somehow they’ve lost touch with the truth. Laws are made for man, not the other way around. It is the people of a nation that make a nation.

And our nation is not made up of laws, nor even in its foundations, as much as I believe in our Constitutional laws that underwrite our freedoms and responsibilities. “We are a nation of individuals – of people.”

Our nation is made up of people and specifically of individuals that together are the true power, foundation and constituents of what we are as a nation. Without people who desire to live in freedom and successfully maintain our nation’s premise of individual rights and freedoms, there would be absolutely no use in laws.

It is the peoples of our nation, its individual citizens, its lives that exist in its borders and within its territories which are the true foundation of our nation. Without them, there exists no state and would be no purpose for government nor laws of any kind.

Capitalism is in service to her people, laws are in service to her people, all forms of government, but especially democracy are in service to her people. Even businesses exist only to serve the interests of people, their needs, their wants, their families and their greater good. Without this, there is what?

12. Measure results against any & all known scenarios, likelihoods, facts and other measured and tangible results.

That’s it – that is basically the analogic process except for 4 rules that go with it –

1. No defined starting point is required.

2. No holds barred – everything is possible.

3. No logical progression nor exclusion necessary.

4. No fear nor hope serves a purpose here.

If the four rules are utilized throughout the process, it runs smoothly. When it doesn’t run smoothly, I usually look for one of those four rules to have been challenged, ignored or over-ridden. I stop, correct the premise of that rule being broken, then go on with the processing.